All Chapters of Betrayed By My Alpha Mate, Claimed By The Lycan Prince : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter 11: A Rumor With Teeth

Sierra I knew something had changed the moment I sepped out of my chambers and the hallway went silent. Not quiet. Silent. The kind of silence that has a shape to it, that presses against your skin and makes you aware of every sound you're making just by existing, my own footsteps too loud, my own breathing too obvious. Two maids folding linens near the east window froze mid-fold when they saw me. One of them actually flinched. I stopped walking. "Good morning," I said, because I didn't know what else to say to two women looking at me like I might bite them. "Good morning, Luna," the taller one said, and her voice cracked on the word Luna like it cost her something to say it. I kept moving before either of them had to figure out what to do with their hands. My heart was already picking up speed and I didn't even know why yet. By the time I reached the dining hall, I understood. I heard it before I saw it, the low murmur of servants clustered near the kitchen doorway, that part

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Chapter 12: What He Actually Sees

SierraKairo found me on the training ground an hour before sunset, the light going soft and gold across the dirt I'd been eating all afternoon.I didn't hear him arrive. That was the first sign something was different, Kairo never approached quietly. He was a man who filled a room by walking into it, who didn't need to announce himself because his presence did it for him. But this time I only noticed him when Fenris straightened abruptly and stepped back, and I turned to find my husband standing at the edge of the ring with an expression I couldn't immediately place."That's enough for today," he said. Not to me. To Fenris.Fenris didn't argue. He inclined his head and left without a word, and Rook followed a half-second later, and then it was just the two of us and the long shadows and my own ragged breathing."I wasn't finished," I said, wiping mud from my forearm."You've trained every day this week. Twice, some days." He wasn't angry. That was almost worse I could have handled a

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Chapter 13: The Potion That Failed

LirielI had told myself I would not do this.I had told myself that a hundred times over the past week, lying awake in my chambers replaying the moment Kairo overruled me in front of the entire court, chose her, the wolf less nothing from Glendale, over my own counsel and every time I told myself I wouldn't stoop to this, the humiliation of it came back sharper than before, until wouldn't had quietly worn itself down into would.The vial sat in my palm, small and unremarkable, the kind of thing no one would look at twice. My grandmother's recipe, refined over generations of women in my bloodline who understood that some doors only open when a man's guard is down enough to forget he has one.It wasn't poison. I want that understood, even now, even by no one but myself in an empty room. I would never have poisoned him. This was gentler than that a compulsion, a pull toward whoever stood closest when it took hold, nothing that couldn't be explained away afterward as wine and exhaustion

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Chapter 14: While The Prince Is Away

SierraKairo told me himself, two mornings later, standing in the doorway of my chambers with his travel cloak already half-fastened."Border dispute near the eastern ridge," he said. "Nothing that should take longer than a few days, but I need to see it settled myself rather than trust it to a report.""A few days," I repeated, and hated how much weight I put on the words, like I was asking for a promise instead of an itinerary."Three, Four at most." He studied me for a moment longer than the sentence required, and I wondered if he could still feel the shape of our conversation on the training ground sitting between us, the same way I could. "Fenris and Rook will keep watch. You'll be safe."I told him I knew that. I told him to go, that Lycan territory wouldn't run itself while he stood in my doorway looking for a reason to stay. He left within the hour, and I stood at the window of my chambers and watched his retinue disappear down the eastern road until the dust settled and ther

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Chapter 15: A Message North

SierraThe unease from Theron's visit didn't fade the way I expected it to. It settled instead, low and persistent, a splinter I couldn't quite work free no matter how many times I turned it over. No one who'd notice if something changed. Three days had passed since he'd said it, and I still hadn't decided whether it was a threat or simply the careless cruelty of a man who liked reminding people how exposed they were.Either way, it had done something to me I hadn't expected. It had reminded me, with brutal clarity, exactly how little time I actually had.I sat at my writing desk that evening with a blank sheet of paper in front of me and thought about Aurora not the abstract idea of her, the daughter I was saving in principle, but the actual weight of her in my arms for the few minutes I'd been allowed to hold her before Darius took her away. The way her small fist had curled around my finger. The sound she made, half cry and half question, like even a newborn could tell something

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Chapter 16: Someone Else Already Knows

Sierra I came back from training already braced for another day of silence, mud drying on my hands, my mind still circling the same unanswered question it had circled for a week, where the letter had gone, whether Bassel was simply delayed or something worse, whether I'd just handed my one working plan to a stranger for a fistful of coin and nothing to show for it. I wasn't braced for what I found waiting in my chambers. Liriel sat in the chair by my window as if she'd been invited, one leg crossed neatly over the other, a folded piece of paper resting in her lap with the particular stillness of something she wanted noticed. I knew the paper before I was close enough to read it. I recognized the fold, the small deliberate crease I'd made myself, sealing words meant for no one but a midwife three days north of here. My whole body went cold. "You should sit," Liriel said, not looking up right away. "You look like you're about to be sick, and honestly, given what I'm holding, I unde

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Chapter 17: Nothing For Free

Sierra"You look terrible," Liriel said, closing my chamber door behind her without waiting to be asked in. "I take it you didn't sleep.""I didn't.""And yet here I am, and there's no answer waiting for me. That's not a good sign, Sierra.""I have questions first.""You had an hour to think, not to interrogate me.""You said you could find the tower. Confirm she's alive." I made myself hold her gaze instead of looking away, the way I would have with Fenris across the training ring steady, unwilling to be the first to flinch. "Prove it.""Prove it.""Before I agree to anything. Before I give up everything I have here on the strength of one conversation with a woman who's admitted she wants my husband for herself.""That's a bold way to phrase a request from someone with nothing to bargain with.""I have the one thing you actually want. Which means I get to ask for something before I hand it over."Liriel was quiet for a moment, studying me the way she might study an opponent who'd une

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Chapter 18: The Name On The List

SierraI heard the commotion before I understood what it was raised voices spilling out from the great hall, sharper and more frightened than the usual murmur of court business. I followed the sound without thinking, still turning Liriel's parting words over in my head, and pushed through the doors just as Kairo's voice cut across the room like a blade."Say it again," he said. "So, the whole court hears it as clearly as I did."Lady Ysolde stood in the center of the hall, pale as bone, flanked by two guards who hadn't touched her yet but stood close enough that the threat didn't need explaining. Varek stood off to one side, a folded parchment in hand, his expression carefully unreadable in the way I was learning meant he found something distasteful."My Prince, I meant no true harm by it, I only—""You called my wife a burden he keeps out of pity." Kairo's voice didn't rise. That was somehow worse than shouting would have been. "You said it to a servant, quietly enough that you assu

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Chapter 19: Broth And Blushing

Sierra"You're doing it again," Kairo said, watching me across the small table in his study."Doing what?""Studying the broth like it's about to confess something to you.""I'm making sure you actually drink it this time. Last week you let it go cold and pretended you hadn't.""I didn't pretend anything. I got pulled into border correspondence and forgot it existed.""You forgot an entire bowl of soup was sitting six inches from your hand.""I contain multitudes."I nearly laughed before I caught myself, which annoyed me more than it should have. "That's not an excuse. That's just an admission that you're careless.""I'm never careless." He picked up the spoon, finally, watching me over it with something warmer than the careful diplomacy we usually managed across this table. "Selectively distracted, occasionally. Careless, never.""Is there a difference?""A significant one. Careless implies I don't notice what I'm neglecting. I notice everything." He took a slow sip, deliberately, h

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Chapter 20: The First Attempt

SierraI never got the chance to answer him.Elara appeared in the doorway before either of us could break the silence stretching between us, her expression apologetic, some minor matter of the evening's remaining correspondence pulling Kairo away before whatever he'd just admitted could go any further. He left with a final look back at me that promised the conversation wasn't finished, only postponed, and I sat alone with my pulse still unsteady and no idea what I would have said if he'd stayed.I told myself I was grateful for the interruption. I told myself that several times over dinner, which I ate alone in my chambers an hour later, still turning his words over like something too fragile to hold carelessly.Some part of me has stopped wanting the ending we agreed to.I was halfway through the meal when the first wave of nausea hit.It came on faster than anything I'd ever felt a sudden, violent lurch low in my stomach, followed almost immediately by a cold sweat breaking out acr

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